Maintainability Program Requirements, Military Standard 470

Military Standard 470 is a recently developed and published document containing the requirements for conducting a maintainability program. It is a tri-service coordinated document and replaces seven previously existing maintainability specifications of the three services. This paper examines each of the maintainability program task requirements and offers explanation, interpretation, or amplification, as deemed necessary, to provide a better understanding of the salient features of the document.